02 Monday Sep 2019
Posted in Travel
Earlier today, at ease over caffè, we rehearsed
The nearest natural disaster of equal force.
Earthquake of magnitude 4.1 (25 miles away, in Norcia, where the bikers raced the day before): No damage or injuries reported
01 Sunday Sep 2019
Posted in Education
I’ve always been a postulant at the font of knowledge.
Still U have to draw the line somewhere short of diss.
Like the one my wife delivered in the clothing store, a
punchline (in her best Italian) about the habits of men
Gladly shared with the young, obliging and native clerk.
Women who shop with us, it seems, believe we’re jerks.
31 Saturday Aug 2019
Posted in Travel
31 Saturday Aug 2019
Posted in Travel
30 Friday Aug 2019
Posted in Travel
In the ideal spot for catching up,
we stay until we lose the shade.
29 Thursday Aug 2019
Posted in Food
Il negozio where we buy wine
also stocks another gold mine.
28 Wednesday Aug 2019
Posted in Travel
Had there been a spare hand for the iPhone
to catch umbrellaed apparitions headed home,
I wouldn’t need a thousand words, more or less,
to picture the sweet success of our grocery run.
28 Wednesday Aug 2019
Posted in Travel
When you’re expecting “Buonasera,” a word
too easily confused with the more familiar
“Buongiorno,” a word ready on the tongue,
“Buon ritorno” will throw you for a loop
if spoken by your neighbor, the customed-
made shirt lady from the shop downstairs.
08 Wednesday May 2019
Posted in Travel
To people the place,
On a night like this.
06 Monday May 2019
Posted in Travel
Closed up and headed for home,
As we’ll be too (and all too soon).